Pediatric Registered Nurse (Community-based)

About This Role

This community-based role focuses on improving asthma care and reducing morbidity for children in the Rochester community. The Pediatric Registered Nurse (RN) will implement interventions, communicate with various parties, and provide education and support around asthma care. The position supports research needs and requires a flexible schedule and travel within the community.

Responsibilities

• Participate in ongoing research studies in the Vaccine Research Unit relating to respiratory illnesses such as influenza and COVID-19, phase 1-3 vaccine studies, and studies in therapeutic agents in both adult and pediatric populations
• Carefully review health data collected for multiple complex research interventions, and under direction of the PI, draft appropriate treatment regimens based on national guidelines to support the implementation of several complex-NIH funded research trials
• Coordinate clinical care delivery between participants and healthcare providers, school health staff and others
• Travel to homes, pharmacies, and schools to implement asthma care interventions
• Conduct asthma education and support to families via Zoom, telephone and in-person
• Utilize telemedicine platforms (Tytocare) to implement interventions
• Communicate daily with caregivers and patients of research trials, primary care and specialist providers, pharmacists, school health staff, insurance companies, and others to ensure the timely and appropriate delivery of the asthma care for interventions
• Serve as the primary contact for all intervention-specific, asthma, and asthma medication questions or concerns
• Present intervention details during annual school-nurse orientation, and semi-annually to provider offices
• Provide links to community resources as necessary
• Maintain meticulous documentation of intervention details in an online database to track delivery of asthma intervention components, and document any issues or concerns
• Provide weekly status reports to PI and Program Director on intervention outcomes
• Participate in additional research activities, including screening potential participants for eligibility, obtaining informed consent, administering surveys, collecting data from medical records and school records, and supporting dissemination of results
• Participate in weekly staff meetings and help lead the annual Community Advisory Board meetings
• Work independently
• Communicate with adult subjects and their families, their health care providers, and hospital staff at Strong, Highland and RGH
• Develop the logistics of subject enrollment, persistence and flexibility in assuring on-going subject cooperation and good data collection skills
• Travel to private medical offices and Urgent Care facilities in the Rochester area to enroll potential subjects and obtaining required samples on occasion